A blustery and overcast final day brought the sailing event at the Central American and Caribbean Games to a close in Cabo Rojo as the home nation took home gold in three classes.

The Puerto Ricans scored a one-two in the Hobie 16 class. Enrique Figueroa and Victor Aponte recorded three bullets and a second to seal the win from Enrique Figueroa and Natalia Olivero. Throughout the 11 race series, the winners scored no less that six race wins. The Mexican crew of Javier Cabildo and Katia Real sealed the bronze position.

The J24 class was almost a carbon copy of the Hobie cats with Puerto Ricans claiming gold and silver and Mexican crews taking bronze and fourth overall. Skipper Efrain Lugo finished the regatta with three consecutive race wins to comfortably win the championship by 10 points from fellow compatriot Jorge Santiago. The Mexicans finished on equal points so bronze had to be decided on discard, narrowly won by Yon Belausteguigoitia.

There was more success for the home nation in the Snipe class. Raul Rios and Gabriel Ramos (PUR) were decisive victors winning all seven races to take gold. Jorge and Alejandro Muttietta (MEX) were second and Marcos Texidor and Ricardo Latimer (PUR) in third.

In one of the most popular fleets Tania Elias Calles (MEX) won the Laser Radial class with a final flourish of three race wins in a row. This was enough to seal her victory from Daniela Rivera of Venezuela and Andrea Aldana (GUA) claiming third.

In the Laser Standard, the most popular class with 25 entries from 15 different nations, Juani Magli from Guatemala totally dominated the fleet with a clean sheet, winning all seven races! Raul Aguayo (DOM) won silver with 22 points, two ahead of Jose Ruiz (VEN).

In the seventeen boat Sunfish class it was the Venezuelans who were the class act finishing one and two. Eduardo Cordero took gold with Hugo Colmenares taking silver. Ard Van Aanholt won bronze.

Mexico were successful in both the One Design divisions, David Mier Terran (MEX) won whithout competing in the final race in the men's whilst Demita Vega Deville won the women's division with a second being her worst result.

Tom Burton (AUS) and Alison Young (GBR) hit the right note in the Laser and Laser Radial at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as they took out the top honours and qualification spots to the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final.

It was double Australian gold in the Paralympic classes. Matt Bugg (AUS) came out on top in the 2.4mR whilst London 2012 Paralympic SKUD18 gold medallists Dan Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch (AUS) were triumphant in the two person keelboat.

Lithuania's Juozas Bernotas came out on top in the Men's RS:X whilst Russia's Stefania Elfutina was triumphant in the Women's RS:X. Both sailors claim the first Abu Dhabi ISAF Sailing World Cup Final spots whilst Jock Calvert (AUS) and Joanna Sterling (AUS) picked up the Oceanic spots for the Emirati finale.

There was some fast paced action in the 49er and 49erFX Medal Races at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as Nathan Outteridge & Iain Jensen (AUS) and Maia & Ragna Agerup (NOR) claimed the honours and Abu Dhabi final spots.

A tight group of five young Papua New Guinean (PNG) Laser sailors are stepping up their 2015 Pacific Games competition program using this week's ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne. PNG is one of 33 countries represented at the important Oceanic event, the largest Olympic sailing regatta in the southern hemisphere.

Melbourne, Australia will host the final Rio 2016 Paralympic Games qualification regatta in 2015. With just under one year until the event, the 2015 IFDS Worlds was launched at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne.

ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne kick starts the journey to the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates with qualification spots and top ranking points available in the Australian city.

Four boats in the Volvo Ocean Race celebrated rounding the venerated landmark of Cape Horn on Monday, a pleasure cruelly denied Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) after the Chinese boat's mast was broken early in a dramatic day on Leg 5.

The wind played dirty tricks all day in Palma on the sailors and race committees who had to juggle with big shifts and different pressure. From 4 to 20 knots, and reaching 40 in some gusts, the wind turned around the bay playing with everybody's nerves.

Ghosting across the line in the inky blackness of a Mediterranean spring night, finally slicing through the finish line set on the very waters where some 40 odd years ago he cut his teeth as a young, aspiring sailor harbouring great dreams, at 01:47:00hrs local time Guillermo Altadill and his talented, ever reliable Chilean co-skipper Jose Muñoz secured second placed in this third edition of the Barcelona World Race, the round the world race for two crew which left the Catalan capital on December 31st 2014.

Algoa Bay brought lighter conditions on Sunday, and after a postponement waiting for the wind to settle, the race got underway in 7 knots of breeze from the south-east. Ted Conrads and Brian Haines from the USA were the pathfinders, and opened up the gate for the fleet as they sailed out to the right-hand side of the course.